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The Blood and The River
"This is 100% bluegrass with a gospel bend that touches on each genre’s past while looking bravely into the future."
- Vents Magazine
LaTresa & the Signal - The Blood and the River
"The Blood and the River is an album that you don’t have to think twice about picking up this season if you’re a hardcore ‘grasser; in my opinion, it’s one of the only purebred pastoral records you’ll hear before the year is out."
https://mobangeles.com/latresa-the-signal-the-blood-and-the-river/
LaTresa & The Signal Release New LP
"Both in the mainstream and in the independent realms of bluegrass and gospel, I don’t think you’re going to find another album that swings with as much of a sensitive harmonic gleam as The Blood and the River does this summer."
https://ventsmagazine.com/2019/06/21/latresa-the-signal-release-new-lp/
LaTresa Smith sings Bright Star for Christmas
LaTresa Smith sings Bright Star for Christmas
Posted on November 15, 2018 By John Lawless
LaTresa Smith has released a single ahead of her upcoming album, one with a Christmas message appropriate for the season.
Bright Star is a duet with her fellow Nashvillian, Billy Droze, which Latresa wrote. She retells the story of the Nativity with a mid-tempo bluegrass beat, assisted by Pat Flynn on guitar, and her touring band, The Signal – Markus Stadler on banjo, Kyle Wood on mandolin, and Randy Smith on bass.
Like so many bluegrass artists, LaTresa got bitten by the music bug at a very young age, traveling with her family’s tribe, a southern Gospel outfit called The Hester Brothers. She started writing her own songs by the time she was 10, and since moving to Nashville in 2003, has been focusing on the bluegrass arts.
Bright Star is available as a digital download from her web site, and can be accessed by radio programmers at AirPlay Direct.
It will be included on her upcoming full-length release, The Blood and The River, expected early in 2019.